A figure of a Bodhisattva, unfired clay mixed with fibers and straw modeled over wooden armature with polychrome decoration and gilding depicted with her hair pulled back and tied up in a top knot and falling to her shoulders, her robes decorated in red and orange outlined with fold lines and lined in green, worn over what appears to be a black undergarment. The reverse is undecorated indicating that this figure stood in a niche as it is nevertheless modeled in the round.Shanxi province, Song / Jin dynasty, 12th century.

Another example acquired at the same time by Alan Priest is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art illustrated in, ‘Chinese Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’, Alan Priest, 1944, plate CXI.